East Central
Written by Capt. Joe Ward
INSHORE and OFFSHORE fishing reports
JULY 24, 2008
INSHORE - The tarpon bite has been good just inside the Ft. Pierce Inlet, at Big Mud Creek and to the north it has been around the Moorings. Most of the fish have been between 20 and 70 pounds and taking a live mullet at first light. Try a D.O.A. Bait Buster if you can't find any mullet. The trout bite continues to be steady just before first light and again just before dark. In the morning try a top water bait or just after daylight switch to a live shrimp.
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Lake St. Clair Fishing Reports from Michigan
Top Destination
Written by Captain Frank Piku
July 24th, Lake St. Clair Fishing Report From The Michigan Side
MICHIGAN FISHING REPORT
Don’t believe the weather man all the time. This Wednesday called for NNW winds 10mph,possible thunderstorms late afternoon. Not a bad forecast, should be a nice cool day!!! WRONG!!! When we hit the mouth of the Clinton River winds were whipping the top of the waves like whipping cream. "Golden Streaker" took off on a plane and ate up these seas. Rolling along at 45mph we reached our first fishing stop in big seas. Non the less everyone was anxious to catch the big ones.
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West Coast Long-Range
West Central
Written by Viking Fleet
July 24th, 2008
14yr old lands swordfish!
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Panama City - Saltwater Fishing Report
Northwest
Written by Capt. Rob Womble
July 23, 2008
Panama City Fishing!!! Trout, Sharks, Pompano, Triple Tail
OK well the Tarpon and Triple Tail wasn't exactly caught in Panama City but it was close enough to call it. The fishing has been pretty good over the last couple weeks. We have been busy running trips and fishing in our spare time. What are we catching…… almost everything on the flats and near the beach.
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Indian River, St. Lucie River & offshore
East Central
Written by Capt. Kevin Drennan
July 23, 2008
The summer fishing pattern has taken hold and the variety of species available to anglers are staggering. It seems that when one bite slows another gets red hot. Cobia and big bull sharks have been all over the Bull Shark Reef south of the St. Lucie Inlet. It is loaded with sardines has been one of the main places to get bait. We have caught a lot of cobia there although a lot of them are under the slot size of thirty three inches to the fork. If we are in doubt of the fish being a keeper, we net it rather than kill an undersized fish with a gaff. We fought a bull shark for an hour the other day before we cut it off near the boat. These fish are as powerful as they come and will tire any angler out.
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Northwest
Written by Capt. John Rivers
july 22th, 2008
Red snapper are plentiful and so are the kings.
Fishing has been very good the past few days, but now we have a tropical storm in the gulf named Dolly, which will keep me in the bay for the next few days, because the swells out in the gulf and along the beaches are anything but swell.
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Port St Lucie & Fort PierceEast Central
Written by Capt. Charlie Conner
July 21, 2008
INSHORE:
Summertime on the Indian River.....It's a wonderful time of year. Lots of afternoon thunderstorms have brought much needed rain to the area this year. You have to plan your trips carefully to get out and beat the odds of getting wet. The water has remained remarkably clear in spite of all the wet weather out there. Fishing picked up the latter part of the week and we enjoyed catching a variety of fish around the river.
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Manatee River, Tera Ceia Bay, Tampa BayWest Central
Written by Capt. TJ Stewart
July 21th, 2008 Tampa Bay area fishing report
Summertime fishing in the Bay!
It’s summertime in Florida! We Floridians know what that means…the rainy season. One thing you can count on in the summertime in Florida is rain. Hey… at least it cools you off. Despite the rain, the fishing has been outstanding.. This year has been a bit different than ones in the past. One thing that has been different is that we have had a heck of a time with bait. There is more bait than any fisherman would want, but it is small. That is one of the great things about fishing with a guide –they are the ones working hard to catch bait.
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Boca Grande to Charlotte HarborSouthwest
Written by Capt. Van Hubbard
7-21-08 fishing report by Captain Van Hubbard.
My faith and hope has been rewarded with better fishing.
I sincerely believed we would have some good fishing, excuse me catching, when our weather finally straightened out and it’s time to Go Fishin’ now. Tarpon are still here and we enjoyed great action yesterday. Redfish, snook, and trout fishing is the best it’s been in years, maybe even decades. No signs of red tide for over a year and fish are rebounding better than ever from the bad years of “05 and 06”. Baitfish are at all time highs, minnows by the millions up and down our Gulf coast. Yes, the weather is unpredictable but fishing, that is catching, is more consistent than it’s been for a very long time. You will need to get lucky on the weather and stronger tides are usually more productive. One example contrary to this is the mangrove snapper fishery and it is best on slow current flows. The snapper are more abundant than ever too. Some Spanish are around but we have not had time to pursue em.
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Southeast Florida Fishing ReportSoutheast
Written by Capt. Dean Panos
July 21, 2008
If you enjoy dolphin fishing in the Gulfstream, then you need to get out there now. The dolphin fishing for the last two weeks has been about as good as it can get, I was lucky enough to have charters almost every day this past week and we caught dolphin on every trip. Most of the schools of dolphin have been under birds but with flat calm seas all week, there has been a build of Sargasso weedlines and some floating debris as well. The individual fish in each school can vary in size, but most of the fish are well above the minimum size. The size of the schools has been impressive. Most of the schools we found this week had well over 100 fish per school. The schools of dolphin have been anywhere from 7 to 20 miles offshore. With the rising costs of gas, I have not really seen many boats out there. In a way that’s OK since the fish haven’t been harassed by a lot of boats and are eager to eat just about anything you throw at them.
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Mosquito Lagoon Fishing ReportEast Central
Written by Capt. Chris Myers
July 21, 2008
Mosquito Lagoon Fishing Report
Casting to Tailing Reds
Summer has continued to bring some outstanding fishing to east central Florida. Large redfish, big tarpon, and plenty of trout have made for some great days of catching in the Mosquito Lagoon and Indian River.With water levels still extremely low last week, the fish were concentrated and the redfish action was about as good as it gets.
Last Monday, I was joined by Bob and his two sons, Tyler and Matt. Within ten minutes of leaving the ramp, 15 year old Matt was hooked up to a twenty pound redfish.
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East Central
Written by Rocky Van Hoose
July 21, 2008 - Running with the Bulls
Each year in Pamplona, Spain there is a famous festival which features crazed thrill-seekers running with snorting bulls through the narrow streets of the ancient city. Each summer, in the Indian River, we experience a similar adrenaline rush with our own brand of bulls – bull reds and bull sharks.
Yesterday, joining Capt. Peter and me were Rob and Rick, two veteran anglers from the Orlando area. They sought the thrill of tangling with the ill-tempered bull reds resident on the shallow flats of the river near Titusville. The redfish did not disappoint. Among the seven redfish fought and caught was a monster 51 inch, 38 pound bull which ran Rob up and down the river for an exhausting hour before finally being subdued. This fish, pictured below, ranks as one of the largest landed in our area this summer.
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Guatemala FishingTop Destination
Written by Guatemala Fishing
July 21, 2008
SEASON SUMMARY
Thank You to all of our valued clients and friends - both old and new - who came to Guatemala this year to participate in some SPECTACULAR fishing !
We started in earnest in October 2008 with an exceptionally strong Blue Marlin bite. We don't usually target marlin, as we are pulling smaller teasers at 6/7 knots for Sailfish - but despite this, we were consistently raising Marlin in the 25-450lb range. It makes for some frantic activity and necessary teamwork from all aboard to co-ordinate getting the rigged 50wt in front of the fish before it loses interest in the ballyhoo - but we managed it (most of the time !) - and several groups landed (ie. leader touched) good sized Blues.
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Marathon and FL Keys Keys Written by Capt. Chris Johnson
July 21, 2008
Exclusive Report
Capt. Chris Johnson took SeaSquared Charters regular customers Don Rodgers and Dan Dudley for a three quarter day of dolphin fishing. With a report of 5 to 10 knot winds, they were surprised to find it was actually blowing 15 to 20 knots in the morning with seas of 4 to 6 feet. Not exactly the conditions they were expecting but they persevered and chugged their way offshore. Within minutes of passing the reef line they found birds working some dolphin in the weeds. They put the lures out and immediately hooked up but something very strange happened.
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Pensacola Bay, Choctawhatchee BayNorthwest
Written by Capt. Eddie Woodall
July 21st 2008 Fishing Report.
Perdido Key, Pensacola, Gulf Breeze, Navarre, Fort Walton Beach, Destin Florida fishing report.
Well, what can I say about the last two weeks that most of you don't already know? The fishing is just fantastic. The weather has been just as good. The King Mackerel bite has not been in close. What I’ve been having to do is ease out to some of the near shore artificial reefs. It seems that the combination of west winds and the Mississippi River flood water runoff it has the water here dirty and it’s cooled the water down a couple of degrees also. This has also given the fall Cobia run a kick start. I’ve been seeing them on just about every trip and catching one here and there. I had a report from Capt. Pat Dineen in Destin that he’s seen a good number of Cobia around East Pass over the last two weeks also. The Snapper bite is still good. I’m catching lots of Mangrove and Red Snapper in the 75 foot range of water depth (six to eight miles out), this seems to be the line where the water is clearing up also.
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Cabo San Lucas, Mexico Top Destination Written by Capt. George Landrum
FLY HOOKER SPORTFISHING, Cabo Fish Report July 21, 2008
WEATHER : Summer time is back with temperatures in the mid to high 90’s most of the week. On Wednesday it was reported by a friend that at his house in town his weather machines reported 100 degrees and 100% humidity! Thank goodness that most of the week has been cooler than that! In the evenings it has cooled off to the mid 80’s with a slight breeze. On Thursday we had a band of clouds move through the area and they brought some rain with them, accompanied by lightning and thunder early in the day. The rain was not heavy, here at my house it was enough to spot the car windows, but out to the north it rained pretty well, there were reports of an inch in Todo Santos and La Paz.
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Flats Fishing Report for Key West AreaKeys
Written by Captain Lenny Leonard
June 21, 2008
June ending up being a great month for tarpon fishing in Key West. The ocean side fishing was fantastic. Plenty of fish to be hooked. I say hooked, because in all actuality, you land 20% of the tarpon you hook. The number on reason for loosing tarpon is angler error. No, not everyone is a poor fisherman; however, what is required to catch a tarpon on conventional and or fly tackle goes well beyond traditional fish.
The genetic structure of a tarpon mouth is solid bone covered in flesh. These fish eat everything from shrimp, crabs, to squid and bait fish. There mouth is not extensively sensitive to getting stuck by foreign object, so the likely of the eating the fly or the bait and then dropping it before you feel them is eminent. They just never feel the hook so they don’t always react, a turn and run directly away, thus causing a proper tight line to hook to fish scenario. This is the first problem.
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Jacksonville and Surrounding AreasNortheast
Written by Capt. James Howard
July 21st, 2008
The tide was right and the water was clean for a little 3am to day break gigging trip this past Wednesday morning July the 16th. No charter that morning so I was going Flounder gigging no matter what…
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Miami AreaSoutheast
Written by Capt. Jim Barlett
July 17th, 2008 Southeast Florida Fishing Report
I hope everyone survived the 4th of July festivities with all their fingers and other body parts in tact!
Since my last report I took Tony and his daughters, Britney, Bliss, and Brigitte out for a day of fishing. First order of business was to collect some live bait. We collected up a good supply of Hardtails, and made our way offshore. As I crossed the edge, Devon already had 2 lines out and we immediately picked up a pair of Bonito. These Boneheads were small and we considered rigging them but opted for a release instead. I continued offshore as Devon ran a 6 line spread. It had been a while since the planer rod had a solid hook up but that was not the case on this day. The 50W Tiagra started running off. Several minutes later Tony landed a nice 22# Wahoo.
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Fort Pierce & StuartEast Central
Written by Capt. Joe Ward
INSHORE and OFFSHORE fishing reports
JULY 17, 2008
INSHORE - Not much change in fishing patterns this time of year. Fish early or late and save the middle of the day for a nap. Still, the best action is the trout, jacks and ladyfish and they all are hitting on top water baits at first light. Try Bear Point or the flats just north of Harbor Branch. I had god reports of redfish this week with some of them coming from around Jack Island area and some coming from the docks along South Indian River Drive. At both places the fish are being very picky. The best results are coming from small live crabs. The catch and release snook action has been good in the Ft. Pierce Inlet for anglers using greenie's fished on the bottom at the tide changes. The snapper were scattered over the weekend with a few here and a few there Most were caught along the channel edges on a small live shrimp -- that is if you were lucky enough to find some.-----------------------------------------------------
Middle KeysKeys Written by Capt. Dave Navarro Fishing report for 7-17-08 from D. M. Navarro @ the World Class Angler in Marathon.
Tired of going out and getting burned? Not so much by the fish as the sun that is. It’s just plain hot! It makes it tough to go fishing unless you keep moving trolling. For those bottom fishing, it is tough to stay out in the sun without getting so exhausted that you don’t want to go again the next day. I have some suggestions for you.
Night fishing. It is fun, adventurous, cooler and very productive. Most of the bottom fish feed predominately at night as well. You usually find the larger fish of the species that you are targeting at night than in the daytime. The bite is usually faster and more fish will come up to the boat as well. All in all, it is the best time to bottom fish.
July 1st 2008 
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